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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:35:17 -0600
From: "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>
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Jeffrey Creem wrote:
> (C++ in this case)
> 
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/09/1152215
> 
> 
> ....Just around the time the major Defense contractors "Got with the 
> times" and completed the switch :)

Heh, yeah, back in the late 90s I was waging a running battle against a 
couple system engineers lobbying that our command and control project 
should drop Ada and migrate to C++, because "that's where the market is 
going!"

Marc